The alliance also pledges more aid to Ukraine, but China warns it to stop "provoking confrontation".

Nato members have pledged their support for an “irreversible path” to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid.

While a formal timeline for it to join the military alliance was not agreed at a summit in Washington DC, the military alliance’s 32 members said they had “unwavering” support for Ukraine’s war effort.

Nato has also announced further integration with Ukraine’s military and members have committed €40bn ($43.3bn, £33.7bn) in aid in the next year, including F-16 fighter jets and air defence support.

The bloc’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said: “Support to Ukraine is not charity - it is in our own security interest.”

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    Russia might still have invaded without NATO provocation. However while Russia is evil, they do have a very valid point in not wanting NATO next to their border.

    Especially since Russia’s NATO application got rejected.

      • @[email protected]English
        14•1 year ago

        Russia didn’t just cause NATO membership for Ukraine, they’re the reason NATO was formed in the first place.

        People should learn about WWII and the roots of these problems. Spend some time with the atrocities coming out of the USSR as they butchered and raped their way through peaceful countries in Europe.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2022/2/pdf/220214-factsheet_NATO-Ukraine_Relations_.pdf

        June 2017, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted legislation reinstating membership in NATO as a strategic foreign and security policy objective. In 2019, a corresponding amendment to Ukraine’s Constitution entered into force.

        In September 2020, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy approved Ukraine’s new National Security Strategy, which provides for the development of the distinctive partnership with NATO with the aim of membership in NATO

        Also relevant is Zelensky staging a coup in Ukraine in 2014 to overthrow the Russian puppet regime that was in place at that time. Meaning Russia lost control over Ukraine politically.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•1 year ago

            Actually NATO just rejected the Ukrainian application. Looks like we’re throwing more Ukrainians into the meat grinder and not fighting ourselves.

            • @[email protected]English
              13•1 year ago

              I guess wanting them in, and feeling that it’s appropriate to bring them in right now are two different things.

              As they’ve said. They want them in. That’s not the same as thinking they should be in now.

              I want to retire, but retiring right now is not appropriate.

              • @[email protected]English
                1•1 year ago

                First Ukraine didn’t apply. That was false.

                Then Ukraine was joining NATO. That was false.

                IDK nobody here seems interested in literal facts so let’s call it quits here.